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I like them to stalk, like the ghosts that they are—our modern passioning seems a bit anachronous in them.

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The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.

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This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.

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The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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